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Book SynopsisAnalyzing Oppression presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? Cudd argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression. This answer sets the stage for analysis throughout the book, as it explores the questions of how and why the oppressed join in their oppression. Cudd argues that oppression is an institutionally structured harm perpetrated on social groups by other groups using direct and indirect material, economic, and psychological force. Among the most important and insidious of the indirect forces is an economic force that operates through oppressed persons'' own rational choices. This force constitutes the central feature of analysis, and the book argues that this force is especially insidious because it conceals the fac
Trade ReviewThis excellent book presents a clear, coherent, and eminently defensible reformative account of the notion of oppression. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements: Part I: A Framework for Analysis 1. Oppression: The Fundamental Injustice of Social Institutions: 2. Social Groups and Institutional Constraints: 3. Psychological Mechanisms of Oppression: Part II: Forces of Oppression 4. Violence as a Force of Oppression: 5. Economic Forces of Oppression: 6. Psychological Harms of Oppression: Part III: We Shall Overcome 7. Resistance and Responsibility: 8. Fashioning Freedom: Appendix, Notes, References, Index:
